Quotes About Resilience

Don't worry about it," his father said, going back to his breakfast. "Worse things happen at sea." "What does that mean?" "It means we're going to pretend like it never happened," his father said, firmly, "because other things are going on right now.

I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim. That's my war. That's the war I'm fighting.

Isn't dying once enough? he thinks. Am I going to have to keep doing it? But then he thinks, No. Because you can die before you're dead, too.

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and my thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

Yo pienso así —afirmo mientras mis pensamientos van surgiendo e inmiscuyéndose con el ruido—. Creo que todo el mundo cae —asevero—, todos nosotros sin excepción. Y me parece que la cuestión no es esa. La sujeto por los hombros para asegurarme de que me está prestando atención. —Me parece que la cuestión es si somos o no capaces de levantarnos.

All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

There aren't any more treatments." "I'm sorry, son," his mum said, tears sneaking out of her eyes now, even though she kept up her smile. "I've never been more sorry about anything in my life." Conor

The devil always outnumbers his foes," he said. "Even if he is alone.

Y él supo que era entonces. Supo que de verdad no había vuelta atrás. Que iba a pasar, independiente de lo que él quisiera, independiente de lo que sintiera. Y supo también que lo iba superar. Sería terrible. Mucho más que terrible. Pero sobreviviría

hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A peace that split yer lip.

I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

soft man who made himself a hard man by drinking whisky in the classroom

And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

But there's always hope," Ben says. "You always have to hope.

But there are harder things than being invisible, it said

Si dices la verdad –le susurró el monstruo al oído-, podrás enfrentarte a todo lo que venga.

And maybe, Adam thought, maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. Maybe they just keep on beating, until they're broken again, and then they keep on beating still.

Remember," he says. "Hope.

I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall. And maybe it don't hurt so much after all.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive,' I say, spitting it out under my breath. 'That's actually when it's most important.